Well some neighbors of mine who don't hunt passed on some interesting information my way. Apparently there is a monster buck who is crossing the road and coming on to our property on a daily basis around 9-12. The thing is he is coming onto our property within sight of my parents house. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39.318952,-86.645329&spn=0.003694,0.010943&t=h&z= 17Here is the image of our property. He is coming from the east and going west. He supposedly crosses the big field and comes across Moon Rd and enters the "point" of our field on the other side of the road. We think he might be bedding down on the hillside along the field. It is very thick and never hunted.All of our stands and hunting locations are on top of the hill. We have been seeing good deer numbers all season but no shooter bucks.

What do you think I should do? I only have one and a half days left to hunt muzzleloader season here. I have Wednesday morning and all day Thursday to hunt. Should I take both days or Wednesdaymoring onlyto go sit down at the end of the field or should I stick to what I have been doing and hope he decides to travel a little further? Thanks for your help.

If he has a routine, then it's all over but the skinning. Set up about 8:30 and see if he shows up.

Oh I really didn't make it clear that I don't have any stands to put down there. It would be me, a bucket, a seat cushion, and a gun.

Unless you are bowhunting you can easily get it done from the ground,find some natural cover and sit still and make sure the wind is in your favor,and be ready a deer that knows where he is going is sometimes hard to stop.with a modern muzzle loader you should be able to find a spot to set up in range.With the season you are having not seeing a shooter you have nothing to lose and all to gain,the best bucks that I have taken were not killed sitting in stands,they were killed spot and stalk or sneaking through the woods and finding them,its possible to do with your bow but much easier with a firearm.Good Luck.If the deer aint coming around you go around them and you will have a better chance to score on a big one!!

go get him both days!

I'm having a hard time understand why there's a question? What you've been doing isn't working and here's a chance to try something different. However, Ihave mydoubts as to how much of a "sure thing" it will be. Non hunting neighbors have a way of stretching the truth.

Actually I found out from my dad that two different people have told him this deer is coming through there at around the same time of day. This is an area that we know deer will travel through but a spot that we have never looked into hunting because of its proximity to the road and houses. Also the hillside just west of our field is very very thick, steep, and rocky. Hearing that people have been seeing a buck travelis logicalbecause this area would make the perfect buck bedding area.

This is just an area I have not thought to hunt before andit could either work out really well or it couldvery easily go bust.

Go get him.

Go to him and drop him!

About 10 years ago, my first year - my dad had seen this nice 6 pointer crossing this same field nearly every day about an hour to hour and a half before sun down. We got down from our stand early, and went to the edge of the field and waited. He came through a little late, but he did indeed come through. That was the first buck I had ever shot, unfortunately though the neighbors ended up recovering him before we did.

This year there was a "10 pointer" that one of the neighbors said he had seen crossing the road all the time in the same spot, heading in the same direction - which was just off to the west of the land we hunt on. If the neighbor's story was true, it put him just over the hill - out of sight, and on the neighbor's property. Opening night I'm sitting on my stand, it gets dark, stuff is moving around me. I hit my call, doesnt seem to react. I unload my gun and wait a few minutes - climb down. The moment I got to the last step I see the two white flags no more than 20 yards behind my stand take off. Mind you, it's piss-dark since I waited to keep from spooking anything since I wasn't able to identify what it was. Next morning, I shoot this a nice 9 point buck.


Moral of the two stories - sometimes they'll stick to their path, and sometimes they'll get caught up in something to wander into new territory. In both cases, they had been known to go to the same place nearly every day!